Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Getting a late start today, though I have no excuse at all as Max is off on his first overnight school adventure. I am distracted by everything today. Marley snoring. Music that doesn't quite seem right. Gotta get my head into the game. So. Need to get to it.

16 School days left to go, though 2 of those have Sports Day and the School Fair in them and one is only a half day. So really more like 14 days.

Goal word count is around 45K. So roughly 12,000 words to go. That's enough days to do it in if I get my 1000 in a day. Though there are some edits I'll need to make to have a solid draft. I need to get a 1000 in today if I can but at least 500.

Wednesday, June 08, 2016

Friday, April 29, 2016

Close to getting the first act of the book done. It's going, still slower than it should be (no one to blame for that but myself, though health is definitely still a factor). I'm liking it though, which is good. :-)

Today out at Baker Street at the nondescript Wetherspoons Metropolitan Pub where the food is cheap (and okay) and the people are surprisingly nice considering how many tourists they have to deal with. It's Friday and we're headed into a three day weekend, Bank Holiday Monday.

Definitely will get over 19K today. Would be lovely if I broke 20K. So, off to it then.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Monday, March 07, 2016

Am back at it. It's been a rough time. Random dizziness, coughing fits, headaches, nausea. Today is mostly just the headache, but I've gotta get back on that horse or nothing will ever get done, so here I am. Sitting alone at the Brand Exchange, where perhaps Tracy might join me later. Had to get out of the house though. I've been housebound pretty much since late October. Not a lot of writing. Not a lot of anything, to be honest. Have no get up and go at all (or, if I start the day with a bit, it doesn't last long).

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Wound up working on some images for Tony the other day, so not a lot of forward progress (though there was reading and getting acclimated again). Also figured out some things about character motivation (in my head), so that's progress too. A lot of writing isn't necessarily on the page, but somewhere in the grey matter. Squishy.

Today at the Brand Exchange. Time to get back into it. Goal to get past 10K. Well past, I hope. Update later.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Holidays are over. Max is back to school. I am almost feeling human again (long story -- it has been an odyssey of doctor appointments and medication and has so far summed up to really, really low vitamin D and really quite high blood pressure coupled with (probably) an ulcer or possibly gallstones or other horrors. I now take a cocktail of pills upon rising in the morning.) and have even ventured out of the house without falling over.

So, back to writing. Have promised myself a treat. Will buy a Sims 3 add on once I've finished 40K on this book. Starting today at 9630.

Also need to write a bit on the thing David and I are lobbing back and forth together.

What is this, anyway?

This is my personal blog and very officially un-official and full of things that won't make sense to anyone else. Notes. Word counts. Somewhat atrocious poetry. Research. Reviews of things so that my sieve of a brain remembers them. Things I write that'll never see the light of day under my real name because my agent would kill me. Well, maim maybe. I don't think anyone actually wants to kill me. I'm just a writer, lost in the wilderness.